| |
| Ez for war, I call it murder; / There you hev it plain and flat; / I don’t want to go no furder / Than my Testyment for that. Lowell. | 5501 |
| Fa bene, e non guardare a chi—Do good, no matter to whom. Italian Proverb. | 5502 |
| Faber suæ fortunæ—The maker of his own fortune. Sallust. | 5503 |
| Fabricando fabri fimus—We become workmen by working. Proverb. | 5504 |
| Fabula, nec sentis, tota jactaris in urbe—You are the talk, though you don’t know it, of the whole town. Ovid. | 5505 |
| Faces are as legible as books, only they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us. Lavater. | 5506 |
| Faces are as paper money, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the coffer. F. G. Trafford. | 5507 |
| Faces are but a gallery of portraits. Bacon. | 5508 |
| Faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Scott. | 5509 |
| Fac et excusa—Do it and so justify yourself. Proverb. | 5510 |
| Facetiarum apud præpotentes in longum memoria est—It is long before men in power forget the jest they have been the subject of. Tacitus. | 5511 |
| Fach—Department. German. | 5512 |
| Facienda—Things to be done. | 5513 |
| Facies non omnibus una, / Nec diversa tamen; qualem decet esse sororum—The features were not the same in them all, nor yet are they quite different, but such as we would expect in sisters. Ovid. | 5514 |
| Facies tua computat annos—Your face records your age. Juvenal. | 5515 |
| Facile est imperium in bonis—It is easy to rule over the good. Plautus. | 5516 |
| Facile est inventis addere—It is easy to add to or improve on what has been already invented. Proverb. | 5517 |
| Facile largiri de alieno—It is easy to be generous with what is another’s. Proverb. | 5518 |
| Facile omnes cum valemus recta consilia / Ægrotis damus—We can all, when we are well, easily give good advice to the sick. Terence. | 5519 |
| Facile princeps—The admitted chief; with ease at the top. | 5520 |
| Facilis descensus Averno est, / Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis; / Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, / Hoc opus, hic labor est—The descent to hell is easy; night and day the gate of gloomy Dis stands open; but to retrace your steps and escape to the upper air, this is a work, this is a toil. Virgil. | 5521 |
| Facilius crescit quam inchoatur dignitas—It is more easy to obtain an accession of dignity than to acquire it in the first instance. Labertius. | 5522 |
| Facilius sit Nili caput invenire—It would he easier to discover the source of the Nile. Old Proverb. | 5523 |
| Facinus audax incipit, / Qui cum opulento pauper homine cœpit rem habere aut negotium—The poor man who enters into partnership with a rich makes a risky venture. Plautus. | 5524 |
| Facinus majoris abollæ—A crime of a very deep dye (lit. one committed by a man who wears the garb of a philosopher). Juvenal. | 5525 |
| Facinus quos inquinat æquat—Those whom guilt stains it equals, i.e., it puts on even terms. Lucan. | 5526 |
| Facit indignatio versum—Indignation gives inspiration to verse. | 5527 |
| Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum—Keep doing something, so that the devil may always find you occupied. St. Jerome. | 5528 |
| Faciunt næ intelligendo, ut nihil intelligant—They are so knowing that they know nothing. Terence. | 5529 |
| Façon de parler—A manner of speaking. French. | 5530 |
| Facsimile—An engraved resemblance of a man’s handwriting; an exact copy of anything (lit. do the like). | 5531 |
| Facta canam; sed erunt qui me finxisse loquantur—I am about to sing of facts; but some will say I have invented them. Ovid. | 5532 |
| Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant—His actions do not harmonise with his words. Cicero. | 5533 |
| Facta, non verba—Deeds, not words. | 5534 |
| Fact is better than fiction, if only we could get it pure. Emerson. | 5535 |
| Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles. Junius. | 5536 |
| Facts are chiels that winna ding, / And downa be disputed. Burns. | 5537 |
| Facts are stubborn things. Le Sage. | 5538 |
| Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. Burke. | 5539 |
| Facts—historical facts, still more biographical—are sacred hierograms, for which the fewest have the key. Carlyle. | 5540 |
| Factis ignoscite nostris / Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo—Forgive what I have done, since you know all evil intention was far from me. Ovid. | 5541 |
| Factotum—A man of all work (lit. do everything). | 5542 |
| Factum abiit; monumenta manent—The event is an affair of the past; the memorial of it is still with us. Ovid. | 5543 |
| Factum est—It is done. Motto. | 5544 |
| Factum est illud; fieri infectum non potest—It is done and cannot be undone. Plautus. | 5545 |
| Fader og Moder ere gode, end er Gud bedre—Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder. Danish Proverb. | 5546 |
| Fæx populi—The dregs of the people. | 5547 |
| Fagerhed uden Tugt, Rose uden Hugt—Beauty without virtue is a rose without scent. Danish Proverb. | 5548 |
| Fähigkeiten werden vorausgesetzt; sie sollen zu Fertigkeiten werden—Capacities are presupposed: they are meant to develop into capabilities, or skilled dexterities. Goethe. | 5549 |
| Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success. Haliburton. | 5550 |
| Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; / I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not. Raleigh. | 5551 |
| “Fain would I climb, but that I fear a fall.” Raleigh on a pane of glass, to which Queen Elizabeth added, “It thy heart fail thee, then why climb at all?” | 5552 |
| Fainéant—Do nothing. French. | 5553 |
| Faint heart never won fair lady. Proverb. | 5554 |
| Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short. S. Rutherford. | 5555 |
| Fair and softly goes far in a day. Proverb. | 5556 |
| Fair enough, if good enough. Proverb. | 5557 |
| Fair fa’ guid drink, for it gars (makes) folk speak as they think. Scotch Proverb. | 5558 |
| Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o’ the puddin’ race! / Abune them a’ ye tak’ your place, / Paunch, tripe, or thairm; / Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace / As lang’s my airm. Burns to a Haggis. | 5559 |
| Fair flowers don’t remain lying by the highway. German Proverb. | 5560 |
| Fair folk are aye fusionless (pithless). Scotch Proverb. | 5561 |
| Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth. Proverb. | 5562 |
| Fair maidens wear nae purses—(the lads always paying their share). Scotch Proverb. | 5563 |
| Fair play’s a jewel. Proverb. | 5564 |
| Fair tresses man’s imperial race ensnare, / And beauty draws us with a single hair. Pope. | 5565 |
| Fair words butter no parsnips. Proverb. | 5566 |
| Faire bonne mine à mauvaise jeu—To put a good face on the matter. French. | 5567 |
| Faire le chien couchant—To play the spaniel; to cringe. French. | 5568 |
| Faire le diable à quatre—To play the devil or deuce. French. | 5569 |
| Faire le pendant—To be the fellow. French. | 5570 |
| Faire mon devoir—To do my duty. French. | 5571 |
| Faire patte de velours—To coax (lit. make a velvet paw). French. | 5572 |
| Faire prose sans le savoir—To speak prose without knowing it. Molière. | 5573 |
| Faire sans dire—To act without talking. French. | 5574 |
| Faire un trou pour en boucher un autre—To make one hole in order to stop another. French Proverb. | 5575 |
| Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, / If better thou belong not to the dawn. Milton. | 5576 |
| Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra—Do your duty, come what may. French Proverb. | 5577 |
| Fait accompli—A thing already done. French. | 5578 |
| Faith affirms many things respecting which the senses are silent; but nothing that they deny. Pascal. | 5579 |
| Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of large ones. Holmes. | 5580 |
| Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song. Stedman. | 5581 |
| Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, / To break the shock blind Nature cannot shun, / And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore. Young. | 5582 |
| Faith builds a bridge from the old world to the next. Young. | 5583 |
| Faith doth not lie dead in the breast, but is lovely and fruitful in bringing forth good works. Cranmer. | 5584 |
| Faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast, / To save dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. Moore. | 5585 |
| Faith has given man an inward willingness, a world of strength wherewith to front a world of difficulty. Carlyle. | 5586 |
| Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than religion. John Stirling. | 5587 |
| Faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest. Madame de Staël. | 5588 |
| Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take. Faber. | 5589 |
| Faith is like love; it does not admit of being forced. Schopenhauer. | 5590 |
| Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. Channing. | 5591 |
| Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero. Carlyle. | 5592 |
| Faith is necessary to victory. Hazlitt. | 5593 |
| Faith is nothing but spiritualised imagination. Ward Beecher. | 5594 |
| Faith is nothing more than obedience. Voltaire. | 5595 |
| Faith is not reason’s labour, but repose. Young. | 5596 |
| Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all knowledge. Goethe. | 5597 |
| Faith is our largest manufacturer of good works, and wherever her furnaces are blown out, morality suffers. Birrell. | 5598 |
| Faith is required at thy hands, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect or inquiry into the deep mysteries of God. Thomas à Kempis. | 5599 |
| Faith is taking God at His word. Evans. | 5600 |
| Faith is that courage in the heart which trusts for all good to God. Luther. | 5601 |
| Faith is the creator of the Godhead; not that it creates anything in the Divine Eternal Being, but that it creates that Being in us. Luther. | 5602 |
| Faith is the heroism of intellect. C. H. Parkhurst. | 5603 |
| Faith is the soul of religion, and works the body. Colton. | 5604 |
| Faith loves to lean on Time’s destroying arm. Holmes. | 5605 |
| Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms. Emerson. | 5606 |
| Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, / And looks to that alone; / Laughs at impossibilities, / And cries—“It shall be done.” C. Wesley. | 5607 |
| Faith opens a way for the understanding; unbelief closes it. St. Augustine. | 5608 |
| Faith without works is like a bird without wings. J. Beaumont. | 5609 |
| Faith’s abode / Is mystery for evermore, / Its life, to worship and adore, / And meekly bow beneath the rod, / When the day is dark and the burden sore. Dr. Walter Smith. | 5610 |
| Faiths that are different in their roots, / Where the will is right and the heart is sound, / Are much the same in their fruits. J. B. Selkirk. | 5611 |
| Faithful are the wounds of a friend. Bible. | 5612 |
| Faithful found / Among the faithless; faithful only he. Milton. | 5613 |
| Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. Confucius. | 5614 |
| Falla pouco, e bem, ter-te-haô por alguem—Speak little and well; they will take you for somebody. Portuguese Proverb. | 5615 |
| Fallacia / Alia aliam trudit—One falsehood begets another (lit. thrusts aside another). Terence. | 5616 |
| Fallacies we are apt to put upon ourselves by taking words for things. Locke. | 5617 |
| Fallentis semita vitæ—The pathway of deceptive or unnoticed life. Horace. | 5618 |
| Fallit enim vitium, specie virtutis et umbra, / Cum sit triste habitu, vultuque et veste severum—For vice deceives under an appearance and shadow of virtue when it is subdued in manner and severe in countenance and dress. Juvenal. | 5619 |
| Fallitur, egregio quisquis sub principe credit / Servitium. Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub rege pio—Whoso thinks it slavery to serve under an eminent prince is mistaken. Liberty is never sweeter than under a pious king. Claudianus. | 5620 |
| Falls have their risings, wanings have their primes, / And desperate sorrows wait for better times. Quarles. | 5621 |
| Falsch ist das Geschlecht der Menschen—False is the race of men. Schiller. | 5622 |
| False as dicers’ oaths. Hamlet, iii. 4. | 5623 |
| False by degrees and exquisitely wrong. Canning. | 5624 |
| False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Macbeth, i. 7. | 5625 |
| False folk should hae mony witnesses. Scotch Proverb. | 5626 |
| False freends are waur than bitter enemies. Scotch Proverb. | 5627 |
| False friends are like our shadow, close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. Bovee. | 5628 |
| False glory is the rock of vanity. La Bruyère. | 5629 |
| False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity. La Bruyère. | 5630 |
| False modesty is the most decent of all falsehood. Chamfort. | 5631 |
| False shame is the parent of many crimes. Fox. | 5632 |
| Falsehood and death are synonymous. Bancroft. | 5633 |
| Falsehood borders so closely upon truth, that a wise man should not trust himself too near the precipice. (?) | 5634 |
| Falsehood is cowardice; truth is courage. H. Ballou. | 5635 |
| Falsehood is easy, truth is difficult. George Eliot. | 5636 |
| Falsehood is folly. Homer. | 5637 |
| Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth. Colton. | 5638 |
| Falsehood is our one enemy in this world. Carlyle. | 5639 |
| Falsehood is so much the more commendable, by how much more it resembles truth, and is the more pleasing the more it is doubtful and possible. Cervantes. | 5640 |
| Falsehood is the devil’s daughter, and speaks her father’s tongue. Danish Proverb. | 5641 |
| Falsehood is the essence of all sin. Carlyle. | 5642 |
| Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. Whately. | 5643 |
| Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. Whately. | 5644 |
| Falso damnati crimine mortis—Condemned to die on a false charge. Virgil. | 5645 |
| Falsum in uno, falsum in omni—False in one thing, false in everything. | 5646 |
| Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret / Quem nisi mendosum et medicandum—Undeserved honour delights, and lying calumny alarms no one but him who is full of falsehood and needs to be reformed. Horace. | 5647 |
| Fama clamosa—A current scandal. | 5648 |
| Fama crescit eundo—Rumour grows as it goes. Virgil. | 5649 |
| Fama nihil est celerius—Nothing circulates more swiftly than scandal. Livy. | 5650 |
| Famæ damna majora sunt, quam quæ æstimari possint—The loss of reputation is greater than can be possibly estimated. Livy. | 5651 |
| Famæ laboranti non facile succurritur—It is not easy to repair a damaged character. Proverb. | 5652 |
| Famam extendere factis.—To extend one’s fame by valiant feats. Virgil. | 5653 |
| Fame and censure with a tether / By fate are always linked together. Swift. | 5654 |
| Fame at its best is but a poor compensation for all the ills of existence. Mrs. Oliphant. | 5655 |
| Fame comes only when deserved, and then it is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow. | 5656 |
| Fame is a fancied life in others’ breath. Pope. | 5657 |
| Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave. Colton. | 5658 |
| Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts. Mackenzie. | 5659 |
| Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. Johnson. | 5660 |
| Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome. Proverb. | 5661 |
| Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Milton. | 5662 |
| Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies. Dante. | 5663 |
| Fame is the advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Stanislaus. | 5664 |
| Fame is the breath of popular applause. Herrick. | 5665 |
| Fame is the perfume of noble deeds. Socrates. | 5666 |
| Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, / (That last infirmity of noble minds,) / To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton. | 5667 |
| Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet. Fuller. | 5668 |
| Fame only reflects the estimate in which a man is held in comparison with others. Schopenhauer. | 5669 |
| Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. Fuller. | 5670 |
| Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, “Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual.” Holmes. | 5671 |
| Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. Carlyle. | 5672 |
| Fame with men, / Being but ampler means to serve mankind, / Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, / But work as vassal to the larger love, / That dwarfs the petty love of one to one. Tennyson. | 5673 |
| Fames et mora bilem in nasum conciunt—Hunger and delay stir up one’s bile (lit. in the nostrils). Proverb. | 5674 |
| Fames, pestis, et bellum, populi sunt pernicies—Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people. | 5675 |
| Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere—It is common to man to pardon all his own faults. | 5676 |
| Familiarity breeds contempt. Proverb. | 5677 |
| Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. La Rochefoucauld. | 5678 |
| Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. George Eliot. | 5679 |
| Famine hath a sharp and meagre face. Dryden. | 5680 |
| Fammi indovino, e ti farò ricco—Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich. Italian Proverb. | 5681 |
| Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. Warburton. | 5682 |
| Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of this. R. Hall. | 5683 |
| Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever and rage to anger. Voltaire. | 5684 |
| Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. Gibbon. | 5685 |
| Fanaticism, soberly defined, / Is the false fire of an o’erheated mind. Cowper. | 5686 |
| Fancy is capricious; wit must not be searched for, and pleasantry will not come in at a call. Sterne. | 5687 |
| Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Landor. | 5688 |
| Fancy kills and fancy cures. Scotch Proverb. | 5689 |
| Fancy requires much, necessity but little. German Proverb. | 5690 |
| Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. Goldsmith. | 5691 |
| Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present. Jean Paul. | 5692 |
| Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it. Fuller. | 5693 |
| Fancy surpasses beauty. Proverb. | 5694 |
| Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. Whately. | 5695 |
| Fanfaronnade—Boasting. French. | 5696 |
| Fanned fires and forced love ne’er did weel. Scotch Proverb. | 5697 |
| Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart, / How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart! / Those ’scape thy anger who refuse thy sway, / And those are punished most who most obey. Prior. | 5698 |
| Fantasy is of royal blood; the senses, of noble descent; and reason, of civic (bürgerlichen) origin. Feuerbach. | 5699 |
| Fantasy is the true heaven-gate and hell-gate of man. Carlyle. | 5700 |
| Far ahint maun follow the faster. Scotch Proverb. | 5701 |
| Far-awa fowls hae aye fair feathers. Scotch Proverb. | 5702 |
| Far better it is to know everything of a little than a little of everything. Pickering. | 5703 |
| Far frae court, far frae care. Scotch Proverb. | 5704 |
| Far from all resort of mirth / Save the cricket on the hearth. Milton. | 5705 |
| Far from home is near to harm. Frisian Proverb. | 5706 |
| Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, / Their sober wishes never learned to stray; / Along the cool sequester’d vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Gray. | 5707 |
| Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes / Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, / And other ammunitions of despair, / Were ever able to despatch by fear. Butler. | 5708 |
| Far niente—A do-nothing. | 5709 |
| Far-off cows have long horns. Gaelic Proverb. | 5710 |
| Far-off fowls hae feathers fair, / And aye until ye try them; / Though they seem fair, still have a care, / They may prove waur than I am. Burns. | 5711 |
| Far or forgot to me is near; / Shadow and sunlight are the same; / The vanished gods to me appear; / And one to me are shame and fear. Emerson. | 5712 |
| Fare, fac—Speak, do. | 5713 |
| Fare thee well! and if for ever, / Still for ever fare thee well! / E’en though unforgiving, never / ’Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Byron. | 5714 |
| Fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! / O wad ye tak’ a thocht and men’! / Ye aiblins micht—I dinna ken— / Still hae a stake: / I’m wae to think upo’ yon den, / E’en for your sake. Burns. | 5715 |
| Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! / This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth / The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: / The third day comes a frost, a killing frost: / And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, / And then he falls, as I do. Henry VIII., iii. 2. | 5716 |
| Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. / I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life. Romeo and Juliet, iv. 3. | 5717 |
| Farewell, happy fields, / Where joy for ever dwells; hail, horror, hail! Milton. | 5718 |
| Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! / Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars / That make ambition virtue! oh, farewell! / Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, / The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, / The royal banner, and all quality, / Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! Othello, iii. 3. | 5719 |
| Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, / Where heartsome wi’ thee I hae mony days been; / For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, / We’ll maybe return to Lochaber no more. Allan Ramsay. | 5720 |
| Fari quæ sentiat—To speak what he thinks. Motto. | 5721 |
| Farmers are the founders of civilisation. Daniel Webster. | 5722 |
| Farrago libelli—The medley of that book of mine. Juvenal. | 5723 |
| Fas est et ab hoste doceri—It is right to derive instruction even from an enemy. Ovid. | 5724 |
| Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity. G. Darley. | 5725 |
| Fashion, a word which fools use, / Their knavery and folly to excuse. Churchill. | 5726 |
| Fashion begins and ends in two things it abhors most—singularity and vulgarity. Hazlitt. | 5727 |
| Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting. Stedman. | 5728 |
| Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic. J. G. Holland. | 5729 |
| Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation of riches. Locke. | 5730 |
| Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid to be overtaken by it. It is a sign that the two things are not far asunder. Hazlitt. | 5731 |
| Fashion is the great governor of the world. Fielding. | 5732 |
| Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Locke. | 5733 |
| Fashion seldom interferes with Nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency. Tuckerman. | 5734 |
| Fashion wears out more apparel than the man. Much Ado, iii. 3. | 5735 |
| Fast and loose. Love’s L’s. Lost, i. 1. | 5736 |
| Fast bind, fast find. Proverb. | 5737 |
| Faster than his tongue / Did make offence, his eye did heal it up. As You Like It, iii. 5. | 5738 |
| Fastidientis est stomachi multa degustare—Tasting so many dishes shows a dainty stomach. Seneca. | 5739 |
| Fasti et nefasti dies—Lucky and unlucky days. | 5740 |
| Fat hens are aye ill layers. Scotch Proverb. | 5741 |
| Fat paunches make lean pates, and dainty bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. Love’s L’s. Lost, i. 1. | 5742 |
| Fata obstant—The fates oppose it. | 5743 |
| Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt—Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling. | 5744 |
| Fate follows and limits power; power attends and antagonises fate; we must respect fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history. Emerson. | 5745 |
| Fate hath no voice but the heart’s impulses. Schiller. | 5746 |
| Fate is a distinguished but an expensive tutor. Goethe. | 5747 |
| Fate is character. W. Winter. | 5748 |
| Fate is ever better than design. Thos. Doubleday. | 5749 |
| Fate is known to us as limitations. Emerson. | 5750 |
| Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a former state of existence. Hindu saying. | 5751 |
| Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. W. R. Alger. | 5752 |
| Fate is impenetrated causes. Emerson. | 5753 |
| Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn. Proverb. | 5754 |
| Fate made me what I am, may make me nothing; / But either that or nothing must I be; / I will not live degraded. Byron. | 5755 |
| Fate steals along with silent tread, / Found oftenest in what least we dread; / Frowns in the storm with angry brow, / But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Cowper. | 5756 |
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